The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.